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  1. Tosho tsuba originally it's thought they were actually made by swordsmith, in Edo period still some swordshimth made some tsuba but mainly those in "tosho style" were made by tsubashi

  2. Very erroneous and personal take. But I've seen the tanto in hand.

     

    I very personally believe its a late Muromachi item. The hada is very rough, and it has typical Muromachi itame-nagare/o-mokume/masame sandwich. Yes you find it in Hasebe, for example, as well, but not in this rough-wide manner. In Rai you would hope for tight itame (or what they correctly call o-mokume). In some Yamato influenced pieces you would have less mokume and more masame, things like nijuba in the hamon. And most Yamashiro schools post Nambokucho are Yamato influenced - Nobukuni, Ryokai etc.

    This one is neither - to me its just such a typical Muromachi jigane.

    Regarding the ha, its neither Yamato, nor really Rai, as there are some togari or gunome peaks close to the nakago, kind of what you see on some Mino-Muramasa in suguha.

    Yet patchy blackish-utsuri jigane and mitsumune to me suggest Uda.

     

    Which can be miles away from the correct answer. But I am yet to receive an identical shinsa judgement for a Sengaku jidai mumei piece. So they have big problems sorting them out as well. The signature can be real here, as there period Kunimitsu's.

     

    Kirill R.

    Thank you Kirill, for sure your inputs make sense, that's why i ruled out almost immediately all most famous schools since this didn't seem to fit in any of those, so i was looking for "zebras", those schools that are out of the main lines, but seems there's so little info about them also in Japanese books

  3. Hosho, Tegai, Kanabo, Rai, Awataguchi, Hasebe, Nobukuni, Heianjo Nagayoshi, Bizen Osafune, Shintogo Kunimitsu, Shizu, Masamune, Sadamune, Mino, Aoe, Shimada, Takagi Sadamune, Norishige, Uda, Fujishima Tomoshige, Sengo, Chikuzen Sa,Ryosai,Ryokai, probably even more so doesn't narrows down much :blink:

  4. Here's my last purchase.
    Mei is Kunimitsu, obviously not one of the famous ones, but the blade looks pretty interesting to me.
    It's a pretty classic sugata with uchizori and mitsu-mune. There's a clear utsuri, looks whitish so would be probably classified as shirake, but unless other shirake this one is not dull and appears at the same angle as a "Bizen utsuri" would appear. 
    I'm having trouble to point out a school or even the exact period, probably is a Muromachi revival, tho the nakago sori would point to older.  :dunno:

     Anyway here's the measures and the pictures, thanks to anyone will give an input.
     

    nagasa 25.7 cm
    kasane 6.5 mm
    motohaba 24.4 mm
    nakago sori 1 mm
    nakago nagasa 11.3 cm

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  5. I think it says:

     

    神妙建依別阿部弘昭造之

    Shinmyo ?Takeyoriwake Abe Hiroaki tsukuru kore

     

    Seems dedicated to a religious person or figure

     

    not quite sure of nengo

    昭和 _ ?甲申年八月日 Aug 1944

    Thank you very much!

     

    Could it read Hiromichi kitau kore?

     

    Its a very nice signature. I would love to see the blade Manuel.

    Not my blade, i been asked if i could help, but here's some shot

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  6. I have some experience creating hamon and utsuri myself, what i learnt is that utsuri (at least the Bizen style one) is an effect of temperature transition, meaning that higher the difference of temperature between the ha and the mune and more likely it will appear.
    The reason why from Shinto times to today is become more rare is simply because the style of hamon changed, swordsmiths create more "controlled" hamon with clay designs using higher temperatures of hardening having as result a lower difference on the various parts of the blade.
    Anyway there are still some modern swordsmiths able to create it, this is a blade i own by modern tosho Keiun Naohiro
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